Author(s): LEADBEATER, C W

Theosophy | Dreams

Many of the subjects with which our Theosophical studies bring us into contact are so far removed from the experiences and interests of everyday life, that while we feel drawn towards them by an attraction which increases in geometrical progression as we come to know more of them and understand them better, we are yet conscious, at the back of our minds, as it were, of a faint sense of unreality, or at least unpracticality, while we are dealing with them. When we read of the formation of the solar system, or even of the rings and rounds of our own planetary chain, we cannot but feel that, interesting though this is as an abstract study, useful as it is in showing us how man has become what we find him to be, it nevertheless associates itself only indirectly with the life we are living here and now.No such objection as this, however, can be taken to our present subject: all readers of these lines have dreamed-probably many of them are in the habit of dreaming frequently; and they may therefore be interested in an endeavor to account for dream phenomena by the aid of the light thrown upon them by investigation along Theosophic lines.